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Deborah Burns
Skirting the Rules
Every daughter has a story. Some are more complicated than others.
Saturday's Child Reading Group Guide
ThroughoutSaturday's Child, author Deborah Burns asks herself questions about the relationships and events that shape this story. Below are some questions for your book club to kick off discussion and help you delve into the many issues about love, family, and career that play a role in this memoir.
1. The author writes that her mother crafted a world where all of her domestic and childcare needs were taken care of so that she could be out in the world. This seems like a very modern solution. How do you think it impacted the author's feelings about herself, her mother and her caretaker aunts? What is the upside (and downside) of an unconventional household or of a mother whose parenting style is outside-the-lines?
2. A parent's inner thoughts are usually hidden from children, making this author's life a sometimes colorful, sometimes shocking backdrop full of illusions and people who were not always what they seemed. Every family has secrets—how did any in your family's history shape who you are today? Have you ever experienced a complete change in opinion of someone after learning their secrets?
3. The marriage of Dotty's parents was one filled with strife, and perhaps was the first place that Dotty learned how to forge the emotional armor that would be a key part of her identity. How might Dotty sharing her own mother's secrets have changed the way the author felt about her grandmother's experience? Are there still similar threads from today about women and their choices? What's changed and what's remained the same?
4. When her future sister-in-law Rita infers that Dotty is lying about her age, she states that she, Dotty and Jay are "three of a kind." How does the truth (or lack of it) impact Dotty's relationships throughout her life?
5. Deborah realizes that in her work at the factory her mother is "an extraordinary woman living an ordinary life." How do you think this lesson impacted the author's own career goals and aspirations? And how did the author's need to give unconditional love to her children compromise or enhance her own career?
6. When the author reminisces about the mother and daughter relationships she has been privy to, she realizes that her conflict-free relationship with her own mother is unusual and perhaps troubling. How do you think Dotty might have dealt with a more rebellious or vocal daughter like Denise in the relationship with her mother Rita?
7. The author is stunned by the psychic astrologer's assessment of her relationship to her mother. What did you think of the astrologer's analysis? If you're a skeptic, why do you think the astrologer's reading had such an impact? If you're a believer, have you ever had a revelation so powerful that you changed course, questioned or sought new answers?
8. The author's therapist guides her to understand her mother's behavior and her own reaction to it. She references narcissism and helps reframe the story of the author's childhood. Have you dealt with narcissistic family members or people in your life who are seductive and charismatic but self-centered?
9. Deborah's father is a quiet, loving presence in her life. In another relationship, as the creative songwriter from an outsized culture and well-known family, he might have been the star. How do you think his relationship with Dotty changed his trajectory? Can there really be two stars in a marriage?
10. The author grew up under the shadow of her mother's beauty. What are other attributes or accomplishments parents have that could make their children feel inadequate? How can modern Boomer mothers who have achieved career success make sure that their Millennial daughters don't feel the same success is out-of-reach?
11. Would you read this book with your mother? Would you read it with your daughter? Why or why not? Much was left unsaid between the author and her mother but the author and her daughter were able to discuss their feelings—what conversations do you think this book would start for you?
12. Unlike harrowing memoirs of abuse, this story draws on the unsettling gray areas of life where things are often uncertain or have shades of meaning. The author looked back on her life to move forward and in so doing, came to terms with perceptions that may or may not have been true. What one relationship in your life—and the beliefs you hold from it—still affects you today?
Let's keep the conversation about mothers and daughters going. Send me your questions, or check out one of my events.
Copyright © 2019 Deborah Burns - All Rights Reserved.


Guy Maddin's latest feature ventures ever deeper into his fascination with silent-era cinema. Aside from music, sound effects and spoken narration, this actually is a silent film, complete with title and dialogue cards. Shot in grainy black-and-white, the film tells the story of Guy Maddin (Erik Steffen Maahs). Not to be confused with the filmmaker, this Guy receives a request from his mother to return to his childhood home, a lighthouse on an island, to give it two coats of paint. Once there, Guy remembers his childhood, a bizarre story of teenage detectives, Pagan rituals, secret laboratories, devious experiments, specters, vampirism and zombies. His mother (Gretchen Krich) and father (Todd Moore) run an orphanage, and sleuth Wendy Hale (Katherine E. Scharhon) turns up to solve the puzzle of the circular wounds on their heads. (She later poses as her brother, Chance Hale). Young Guy (Sullivan Brown) falls for Wendy, but his sister (Maya Lawson) falls for Chance, creating an odd love triangle. Guy's mother keeps calling for him in a squawking voice using a kind of enhanced megaphone. It's all pretty amusing, and Maddin never runs short on ideas, neither narrative nor visual, but he appears to be a bit too enthralled with his presentation to let us inside. It lacks the touching, emotional quality of his great 2004 feature, The Saddest Music in the World. In the print that most people will see, Isabella Rossellini provides the narration, but in special screenings, live actors will read the lines. (Joan Chen performed it at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and in other showings, Crispin Glover, Barbara Steele, Daniel Handler, Mike Watt, Udo Kier and others have performed/will perform.) Love that exclamation point in the title!


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Mexico says it will negotiate with Trump
Mexico's new foreign relations secretary says the country isn't only willing to negotiate changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement, it wants negotiations as soon as possible.
Luis Videgaray says there's "enormous uncertainty" following the U.S. election of Donald Trump as president. Trump has pressured companies not to move jobs to Mexico, warned he would tax those who do and vows to renegotiate NAFTA.
Videgaray said in a Radio Formula interview Tuesday that Trump's actions have caused concern, adding "that is why this (negotiation) process is so important, to dispel this uncertainty." He said talks should start "as soon as possible."
He said Mexico is willing to negotiate over Trump's plan to build a border wall. But Videgaray said Mexico won't pay for the wall, calling that "unacceptable."

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Royal Challengers Bangalore have never been able to win the coveted Indian Premier League trophy despite having one of the mightiest squads in the competition. The Bengaluru-based franchise is the home of Indian skipper Virat Kohli and also Mr. 360 AB de Villiers, yet, they have never been able to capture the IPL trophy.
The team management, however, has taken some bold decisions ahead of the upcoming auction as they have brought in some big names in the coaching staff. Ahead of the auction, Royal Challengers Bangalore would have definitely set some plans which they would like to execute in the auction room.
While they have a star-studded squad already, here are the three players that RCB should target in the IPL 2020 auction.
#1 Tom Banton
Somerset v Kent Spitfires - Vitality Blast
20-year-old sensation from England Tom Banton has become the talk of the town because of his magnificent performances in the Vitality Blast. Having a look at the overall career stats of Banton's limited-overs career, he has played 18 List A matches, aggregating 524 runs at an average of 30.82.
However, his numbers are much, much better in the T20 format where he has scored 591 runs in just 16 innings. Royal Challengers Bangalore had bought Shimron Hetmyer for a hefty price in the previous year. But, the West Indian batsman could not live up to expectations.
Thus, RCB can look to free some of their funds by releasing Hetmyer and purchasing the services of Banton. Plus, of course, the Englishman can play the role of the wicket-keeper for Virat Kohli's side. Thus, he can also emerge as Parthiv Patel's replacement in case the Gujarat-born player plays poorly in the earlier matches of the season.
A lot of teams will have their eye on Banton. But, RCB should look to go after him because he can prove to be the missing piece of their jigsaw puzzle.
Also see – World Test Championship points table
IPL Auction 2020 Royal Challengers Bangalore Lendl Simmons Tom Banton


1) That people are converting their reading experience into consciously clear interpretations (imagery, sounds, etc) while reading a comic (a notion that echoes McCloud's Closure).
2) That people's creation of meaning is entirely based on experience ("Empiricism").
Concerning the first point, I know when I read a comic, I don't necessarily feel like I "fill in" any missing imagery with mental imagery of my own. I don't visualize anything that isn't in the pages. I do understand it, and make the mental connections between and across images/words, but there is no additional imagery added. Novels do create this imagery (for some but not all people) because it isn't provided already.
This blog post has replied to my earlier posting expressing that Ware's meaning of "active" comprehension relates to this sort of filling in of sensory information that's missing. Again, I am hesitant to accept that people are actually imagining sounds, smells, motion, etc. while reading a comic.
Novels certainly allow people to create visual imagery — but vision is our primary sensory modality, so I find it unsurprising that this would happen. I'm less confident about the other senses.
SO....If you actually do feel like you create mental imagery while reading comics, I want to hear about it in the comments please!
On the second point, there is quite a lot of evidence that our understanding of meaning does not necessarily come from experience (and certainly not conscious experience). That's not to say all of it is innate, but there's a give and take between innate meaning and acquired meaning — the debate is over the percentages.
What I'd be more confident stating though is that when reading a comic, I doubt people are actively referencing overt memories or experiences in order to comprehend a sequence. Rather, they are drawing upon their abstract concepts — just like when they read a book, or yes, see a movie.
I agree with you about reading comics and not filling in sensory experience.
I'm also a little bothered how people talking about comics fall back on the "passive" nature of watching films, as if you don't have to fill-in information or search for meaning when watching a film. Sure, some don't require that, but the good ones do. I wasn't a passive viewer of, say, Mulholland Drive.
I tend to fill in motion, sounds, individual character voices, etc. when I read comics, maybe moreso than I do when I read novels. I think maybe the experience varies depending on the person.
I am wondering if you focus on the right point: I think that the emotionnal impact depends on the context (environment); indeed watching a movie in a big dark room among unkmown people is different from playing a DVD in your lounge, in the second case, you will have the opportunity to use the remote and to jump in the temporal place as you could turn back page of your comics.
Comics is also an object whereas in a large acception, Cinema is not.
I am currently reading a Umberto Eco's book called "Open Art Work" ("L'oeuvre ouverte" in French and "Opera Aperta" in italian). It has been written in 1962, but I think (I may be wrong) that there is a lot of quotes which still could be useful to understand the way people apprehend an Art Work.
Why is that Ware assumes listening to language (as in a movie) is passive, whereas reading it is not? Both involve activation of linguistic codes and the like. Likewise, even in the dumbest of movies, one still has to process the images, remembering what came before to understand what one is currently seeing. Ware sounds like some crude social critic from the dawn of cinema.
Like Kris, I tend to imagine ("fill in") some sounds and missing visual detail when I read comics, and I suppose that memory/experience provides a resource from which to draw when doing the filling in, as Ware suggests.
One question this raises is whether or not this sensory filling in is necessary for our appreciation or interpretation of the work.
For instance: Ware means for us to imagine (or at least not to doubt) THAT Jimmy Corrigan and Rusty Brown make audible sounds when they speak, and that sometimes they speak loudly, and other times softly, and still other times only to themselves. But is it expected also that every time we read their dialogue we should imagine what their voices sound like?
Two different kinds of imaginative work are possible but only the first ("imagining-that") seems to be a necessary part of comprehension.
P.S. As I tried to suggest in my comment to the previous post, I think Ware limits his remark on passivity (rightly or wrongly) to the filling in of sensory information. Nothing he says in that remark suggests (to me) that film in general requires less work than comics when it comes to other kinds of gap-filling and interpretation.
Moreover, reading him charitably, I think he's using the comparison to say that reading comics is active and not really to say anything enduring about film.
I don't know, Jonathan, it seems to me that Ware is pretty clearly drawing a continuum of passivity to activity going from film to comic to novel.
FWIW, I do sometimes provide characters in comics with distinctive voices, often based on external sources. An obvious example would be comics based on licensed properties from other media (like Star Wars). A comic book version of Han Solo "sounds" like Harrison Ford to me.
While I do make active associations like that, they are predominately limited to characters whose voice I have a real reference of some kind for. To me, Superman always sounds like Danny Dark (who voiced the character for "Super Friends") and "American Splendor" always sounds like it's being read by Harvey Pekar. Characters that I can't make any direct association with, though (like Rueben Flagg or Groo) remain "voiceless."
Charles: I agree that Ware is "pretty clearly drawing a continuum of passivity to activity going from film to comic to novel," but he is not saying very clearly what the activity in question consists in. Something about making the story content "come alive" on the page, which, in the case of comics and novels, requires (his point) that readers draw (to some degree?) on memory and experience. He doesn't give us too much more than this in the quote, but he does suggest that this is not something we need to do with film.
The second sentence of the quote does suggest (wrongly) that all that viewers tend to do, and need to do, in watching a film is to sit there and "take it in." And Ware follows this point with the suggestion that comic strips and novels are works that we need to interpret ("search . . . for meaning") whereas films (mysteriously) are not.
But the rest of the quote suggests to me that Ware has misspoken and is correcting for what he has just said. (Notice how there is no reference to film or the "cinematic" after the second sentence.) His intended point of contrast, then, is rather the one that we need to make comics and novels "come alive" whereas films, being constructed from recordings or life-like simulations of the real, "come alive" for us on their own. This is the difference in activity I take him to mean.
On your second point: I suggested that this making vivid of the storyworld requires an imaginative "filling in" of sensory information, but I have nothing positive to say on the psychological nature or quality of that information. I agree, however, that visualizing something "in our heads" is not the same as seeing it in a film – and I suppose Ware does as well. Elsewhere, I believe, he says that in "reading" the pictures in comics we have an experience like that of remembering an event, or the concepts we have applied to it, rather than of actually witnessing it. Or something like that.
Well, the first problem I noticed with the quote is that it claims that watching movies is passive. When watching a movie, our eyes are working, our brain is interpreting visual images, etc... According to some recent work on film (such as Asbjorn Gronstad's book TRANSFIGURATIONS), cinema is active, asking us to interpret it, and to work with it. Not watching a movie is passive, not reading a comics is passive, but the act of watching or reading is certainly not passive.
I'd say I not so much fill in as rehearse the imagery, which means that when I turn away from the comic it can influence the way I imagine things without a visual aid, the same way reading the Bible in renaissance/baroque Italy must have felt.
How active is comic comprehension versus film?


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TECHNICALLY, Superman is from the DC comic universe, not Marvel.
I will for sure let her know that!


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Q: Activerecord 3.2.8 associations error I'm encountering strange error with ActiveRecord 3.2.8 with this code:
I have 2 models - Customer and Invoice.
class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :invoices
end

class Invoice < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :customer

  def self.last(customer)
    customer.invoices.order("some_date_column DESC").first
  end
end

I'm running a code similar to this:
Thread.new do
  ActiveRecord::Base.connection_pool.with_connection do
    Customer.all.each do |customer|
      invoice = Invoice.last(customer)
      ...
    end
  end
end

When running that code I sometimes get the following strange error:
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/associations/collection_association.rb:25:in 'initialize': wrong number of arguments (1 for 0) (ArgumentError)
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/associations/collection_association.rb:25:in 'new'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/associations/collection_association.rb:25:in 'initialize'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/associations.rb:157:in 'new'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/associations.rb:157:in 'association'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/associations/builder/association.rb:44:in 'invoices'
from .../models/invoice.rb:7:in 'last'

Any help is much appreciated.

A: When you get this kind of error
wrong number of arguments (X for Y)

It means you tried to invoke a method passing a different number of arguments than it expected. In your case the method you invoked wasn't supposed to receive any arguments (for 0), but you tried to pass one (1 for). From the last line in the error, it seems the problem is Invoice.last(customer)

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The amount of time you spent in weekly study for highschool academics will probably get you behind at Texas A&M. Gradually adjust yourself to the faster pace. Self-talk that Interferes with Studying When confronted with the decision to study or not to study, you engage in a little talk with yourself.... Time during which I used to torture myself constantly. I would go through everything in painstaking detail. The 'what-ifs' and 'if-only's.' Everything SHE ever said, everything I ever said … and I would blame myself for all of it. I just couldn't stop.
I'd heard the stories from those in years above me, but I was yet to experience VCE Year 12 myself in all its glory. During Year 12, and in the time between school finishing and starting my tertiary education, I experienced a lot.... I am an extremely procrastinative person, and I have been struggling to make myself do things instead of procrastinating things all the time. And I think this blog post is an awesome one. I have found dozens of similar posts on the web, but this convinces me most.
It will hardly come as much of a surprise to millions of frazzled women across the country. For a study has found that the average mother ends up with a mere 17 minutes to herself a day.... Now in all relationships we like to talk and listen to each other and this is what reading and praying is all about. When you pray you tell God about all the things you want to talk to him about. You can tell him about how you feel, what makes you happy, what makes you sad.
I do have to be strict with myself because I have so little time to actually study I have to make sure I make the best use of it. Another thing I try to do is to read round the subject as much as possible to widen my understanding. I have to balance my duties as a parent, student and husband in a way that allows quality time for each unless problems may occur which may be more important than... as i now found myself eager to study,there was a continous will to study study...i only thought about my exam, every second of my day, day and night.and it wasnt like i was born like that , all my life i have been lacking that concentration and the real trick is i dont have concentration and patience now too.
It will hardly come as much of a surprise to millions of frazzled women across the country. For a study has found that the average mother ends up with a mere 17 minutes to herself a day.
If you do the same old things all the time, it's going to get boring. This is the perfect way to keep things interesting. This is the perfect way to keep things interesting. 10.
All the data collected in a time study can be displayed in the form of a distribution, often a histogram showing the frequency of various sets of scores and resembling a distribution curve of tall boxes.
Time during which I used to torture myself constantly. I would go through everything in painstaking detail. The 'what-ifs' and 'if-only's.' Everything SHE ever said, everything I ever said … and I would blame myself for all of it. I just couldn't stop.


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MPs Claim Expenses For Getting Caught At Being Whores
FOUR Labour MPs have claimed expenses for getting caught offering to peddle their influence to the highest bidder like common whores.
Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt, Geoff Hoon and Margaret Moran have all submitted claims for around £3000 each, covering the cost of answering the phone to journalists and a new wide screen television so they can watch themselves getting caught, as well as the customary selection of luxurious bath products and emergency double glazing.
Byers, who was caught on film during a sting operation, said that he was 'a bit like seaside donkey waiting to be ridden', while Hewitt told the undercover reporters that she did 'happy endings but no kissing'.
The former defence secretary Geoff Hoon told the reporters that he still could not believe that other people were willing to pay him to do things given the fact that he is 'after all, incredibly Geoff Hoon'.
Former transport secretary Byers claimed he controlled a network of invisible spies inside his old ministry and could make all the planes fall out of the sky at the same time; former health secretary Hewitt told a paracetamol company she could make everyone's headaches last longer, while Luton MP Moran claimed she could 'probably dig out the switchboard number of the department of trade and industry, or whatever it's called these days'.
The scandal could damage Labour's election campaign by undermining the party's hard-won reputation as wise and principled public servants who have always put the country before their own political or financial interests.
Meanwhile a Downing Street source said the fact that the three former ministers at the centre of the scandal are all high profile critics of the prime minister was 'obviously nothing more than a coincidence, if you believe in that sort of thing'.
The source added: "And if anyone else wants to make trouble I'm sure we could coincidence the fuck out of them as well."
B&bs Forced To Offer Gay Breakfast
BRITAIN'S B&Bs could soon be prosecuted for discrimination unless they offer customers the choice of a gay cooked breakfast.
Ministers want to extend the current legislation that requires all hotels and guest houses to ensure the availability of at least two gay beds at all times or at least one very large one.
Sources say B&Bs will be in breach of the law unless they offer gay eggs, same sex tomatoes and a spoonful of beans arranged in the shape of Toto from The Wizard of Oz.
The move comes just days after a couple were refused a gay breakfast at a guest house in Berkshire.
Bill McKay, a same sex man from Cambridge, said: "I simply asked for a whole black pudding – preferably at least eight inches long – and an extra packet of butter.
"This horrid old woman looked at me like I was Adolf Eichmann and said she was going to phone the police. I immediately chased after her shouting that I was going to phone the police and then we both stood in the hall, on the phone to different policemen, giving each other really dirty looks."
A senior Whitehall source said: "When it comes to the sexual orientation of a cooked breakfast the law is not on anyone's side so we decided to make a new one that would be on someone's side. And we chose the gay side because B&Bs tend to be owned by the sort of people who don't like Harriet Harman."
Guest house owner Margaret Gerving said: "I experimented with muesli in the 1980s and the place was soon filled to the rafters with homosexuals, many of whom may have been gay."
She added: "These are my breakfast plates and I don't see why I should be forced to cover them with dirty Satan mushrooms and oddly shaped bacon that chose to be that way.
"And I can't sleep at night thinking about the kind of juice they'll make me serve."
Tom Logan, professor of overnight accommodation politics at Reading University, said: "It is a pain to have to check if it's okay to sleep bottom to bottom with another human being, but unfortunately some bed and breakfasts are run by little old ladies who go to church, volunteer at a local charity shop and have never had all their friends round to drink daquiris and watch the Queer as Folk box set.
"And while she may be a shrivelled old bigot, filled with stupid fear, when she says that it's her house, she does have a fairly large, throbbing point."


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How Comprehensive is BenchSci's Data and Where Do We Get It?
Claudia Hung (she/her) Posted on Sep 8, 2021 Last updated Sep 8, 2021
Science is nothing without data. But sorting through the world's history of experimental data to find information relevant to a specific experimental context can be challenging. BenchSci is a powerful technology that scientists can leverage to quickly find the data they're looking for, helping them accelerate their research and get novel medicine to patients faster. We have the world's most comprehensive dataset of experiments, reagents, and model systems, compiled by proprietary machine learning models trained to understand experiments like a Ph.D. scientist. BenchSci empowers scientists with unique insights right at their fingertips to design and run more successful experiments. If you're curious, here's a quick breakdown of our data and where we get it.
Scientific Publications: >11 million
Our machine learning models have analyzed over 11 million open- and closed-access publications, and we're adding new ones monthly. This includes papers published on PubMed Central within the last 15 years, where NIH-funded research is made publicly available within 12 months of publication. We've also partnered with several major publishers, including:
Springer Nature - has more than 3,000 journals, 7 million articles, and 300,000 books covering a full range of disciplines
Wiley - has over 7.5 million articles from more than 2,000 journals, 22,000 books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols, and databases
Wolters Kluwer - includes leading publishers such as Lippincott, Medknow, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Taylor & Francis - publishes more than 2,700 journals and 5,000 new books each year
The American Medical Association (AMA) - includes leading journals such as JAMA, JAMA Cardiology, JAMA Oncology, and JAMA Neurology
Karger - publishes 50 new books per year and 110 peer-reviewed journals covering nearly the entire medical spectrum
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) - one of the top biology journals globally, covering all fields of biology at every level of organization
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) - publishes four journals and co-publishes an open-access journal with the British Pharmacological Society and Wiley
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) - publishes over 3,500 research papers annually
Mary Ann Liebert Inc. - publishes over 90 peer-reviewed journals, leading trade magazines, and specialized newsletters
Biomedical experiments: >29 million
Within this publication database, our technology has identified more than 29 million individual experiments that utilize:
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Total figures: >7.8 million
One of the most valuable things our platform provides scientists with is figure data. Our proprietary image recognition technology has extracted comprehensive data from over 7.8 million figures, including:
>3.2 million figures from peer-reviewed publications
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In addition, we have >148,900 figures from third-party validators, which include:
The Human Protein Atlas (HPA): A Swedish-based program started in 2003 to map human proteins, tissues, and organs, which has contributed to several thousands of publications in the field of human biology and disease
Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE): An international collaboration of research groups funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to build a comprehensive parts list of functional elements in the human genome
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Lund-Johansen Lab of Oslo University: Has a central role in developing and supporting biomedical research—including basic, translational, and clinical research—within the South-Eastern Regional Health Authority and also pursues international research collaborations
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Ferrari: Power unit upgrade can make the difference in fight with McLaren
19th October 2021, 12:24 | Written by Dieter Rencken and Keith Collantine
Ferrari believe the power unit upgrade they introduced over the last two races could prove decisive in their close fight for third in the championship with McLaren.
Although McLaren have held third place for much of the season so far, Ferrari cut 10 points out of their advantage at the last round, leaving the two teams separated by just 7.5 with six races to go.
Carlos Sainz Jnr received Ferrari's power unit upgrade at the last round in Turkey, one race after his team mate. He said the gain could help tip the balance against his former team.
"We were quicker than McLaren [at Istanbul]," said Sainz. "In Sochi they were quicker than us. So I still believe it's going to be up and down until the end of the year.
"What this engine should give us, I think, is the possibility during the circuits that we are behind – there will be for sure a few circuits that we behind – to be a bit closer to them and in the circuits that we are in front to be maybe a bit further up."
Ferrari brought forward the introduction of the upgrade to give it more time to prepare ahead of the freeze on power unit development which will come into force next year.
"This is what we were looking for since the upgrade was pushed forward and what we hope is going to give us that little edge to try and make the fight a bit more complicated for them," said Sainz. "We managed to cut 10 points on them which for the points that we are fighting is quite a big cut. So if we keep fighting, six races to go, I think anything can happen."
Team principal Mattia Binotto said Ferrari had taken a calculated risk by introducing the upgrade earlier than originally planned.
"The first object is try to increase our experience in the view of 2022," said Binotto. "And that's why we are introducing it as soon as possible, trying to rush in terms of development, taking some risk as well.
"But it's all a risk assessment because obviously for us it's key to get mileage on-track and do our own experience before 2022 where the power unit will be frozen. And really for us that was the key and the reason of it."
The upgrade gives Ferrari a "small advantage", said Binotto. "It's track-dependent. It's not only pure ICE [internal combustion engine] power, it's energy recovery so it's a bit complex.
"But certainly it's giving us an advantage and as the drivers said in overtaking, if I look as well as the quali with Charles he was qualifying with the fourth lap time but if I look behind him I think it was very close. I'm pretty sure that's a couple of positions would have been lost without that specification."
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Posted on 19th October 2021, 12:24 Author Dieter RenckenCategories 2021 F1 season articles, F1 newsTags carlos sainz, carlos sainz jnr, carlos sainz jr, F1, Ferrari, ferrari f1 team, formula 1, formula one, mattia binotto, McLaren, mclaren f1 team, sainz, sainz jnr, sainz jr, scuderi a ferrari
14 comments on "Ferrari: Power unit upgrade can make the difference in fight with McLaren"
SpaFrancorchamps (@spafrancorchamps)
I think Ferrari had a better car than McLaren, with a bad engine that kept them down. McLaren would had been much more ahead, if not for Daniel's performance issues. Now that the prancing horse is back, I think it will be game, set and match for Ferrari.
I think both sets of cars are both very track specific. If there was 6 x Monza's to finish the season McLaren would run away with it. If there were 6 x Monaco's Ferrari would. Dan's struggles coming to terms with the McLaren have definitely reduced the margin of McLarens advantage over Ferrari, but at the end of the day he's a far more experienced racer than the rest of the 4 seats, and has showed that when he is in sync with the car he can get the maximum out of it. Like the top of the table I expect the balance to ebb and flow between McLaren and Ferrari until the end of the year.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
Absolutely about 6 monaco vs 6 monza, it's even more a foregone conclusion than if there were 6 austria or 6 monza for red bull vs mercedes, cause reliability could still come into play, while at monza or monaco there's such a gap between mclaren and ferrari that not even reliability can overcome that.
Cause there will be more cars inbetween ofc.
Facetious (@peartree)
It's difficult to assess, the ferrari, as evernit seems, has good brakes and good traction, their weaknesses were direction change and power. With this car direction change seems better, they used to struggle in silverstone, perhaps they have improved the pu's center of gravity, the power is much improved but still clearly lacking.
20th October 2021, 0:29
As much as I hate to say it, there is only one significant factor in the competition between Ferrari and Mclaren, and that is Daniel Ricciardo.
Had Dan performed even half reasonably, I doubt the gap would be even close at this point of the season. He and his performances (or lack of) in these last few races will be the difference between 3rd or 4th. The cars are evenly matched enough this year to call it a draw – the difference will be entirely drivers.
In the last few races;
RIC – 0 – 12 – 27 – 0 – 6 = 45
NOR – 6 – 7 – 18 – 1 – 0 = 32
SAI – 4 – 15 – 8 – 6 – .5 = 33.5
LEC – 12 – 0 – 12 – 10 – 2 = 36
That's a fact. Ricciardo is the top scorer last 5 races. Cannot argue with that. Subjectively you could say that's all down to 1 mega weekend at Monza that he has come no where near for every other race.
Take out the win and it's a whole different story.
Well, if we take away the best result for each driver, ricciardo has 18 points left, norris 14, sainz 18,5, leclerc 24, so he's still in competition or higher than all but 1 driver in the last few races minus outlier win.
21st October 2021, 5:28
Yea, facts can really get in the way of personal beliefs.
@dbradock But you must also factor in Leclerc's bad luck and then it about evens out again
Sort of. I'd still say if Dan had performed as they'd have expected (regularly 4th to 6th with a podium or two) and at least matched his team mate they'd have been well clear of Ferrari.
He's definitely going to have to perform at Norris's level for the remainder of the season or both Leclerc & Sainz will pull points in front of him
Yea, if you take the facts and ignore all the results that you don't like then the remaining facts are exactly whatever you believe them to be.
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Brooklyn man who spent 3-plus years in jail is acquitted of carjacking, armed robbery
Michaelangelo Conte | The Jersey Journal
A Brooklyn man charged with attempted carjacking on the Jersey-City-Bayonne border has been found not guilty and ordered released from the county jail in Kearny, where he has been since his arrest on the charges more than three years ago.
Julio Colon, 32, was emotional as he listened to this morning's verdict.
He was originally charged with carjacking, armed robbery, robbery, impersonating a police officer, theft, eluding police and obstructing a government function, in connection to the Nov. 2, 2011 incident on the connection between the New Jersey Turnpike Exit 14A and Route 440. He also faced charge of conspiracy to commit carjacking, armed robbery and robbery.
After about two hours of jury deliberation yesterday and less than two hours today, Colon was found not guilty of all charges except eluding and obstructing. Carjacking caries a possible sentence of up to 30 years and armed robbery up to 20. With today's verdict, Colon will likely face a sentence of 3 to 5 years.
Colon's bail was originally set at $150,000 cash or bond and later reduced to $100,000 cash or bond. He was unable to post and now has jail credit of 1,178 days to apply to any sentence he receives.
After today's verdict, Hudson County Superior Court Judge Paul DePascale ordered Colon released pending sentencing on the morning of March 20.
The prosecution had alleged the victim was driving from Staten Island to Westchester on Nov. 2, 2011 when he realized he was being followed. He changed directions and headed over the Bayonne Bridge to confirm he was being tailed and then drove the length of Bayonne before being forced off the road by Colon's vehicle, the prosecutor argued.
The prosecution told the jury Colon waited in the car while his two passengers went to the vehicle, pretended to be armed police officers and attempted to take victim's 2001 Mercedes. That's when a Jersey City police officer on patrol showed up and the two men ran back to Colon's vehicle, and they sped away.
Colon's car was found minutes later in an alley in Jersey City and security video captured what prosecutors say was Colon and two other men leaving the car, one carrying a large bag. The next day Colon reported the car stolen, but the time he said he last saw it was actually prior to the time he and the other's were seen walking from the car, the prosecution alleged.
Defense Attorney Michael Rubas called the victim's testimony at trial "nonsensical." He told the jury it was "absurd" to think that a man would take a 9-mile drive and be fearful enough to drastically change his route, but never call police during that period.
He noted that the victim passed a police station in Bayonne and numerous residences and businesses, but never sought help.
In his closing statement yesterday, Rubas admitted his client was driving the car and that he drove away from police and was certainly guilty of eluding and obstructing. He said something happened that night, but all the other charges were based on nothing but the word of the victim.
"What really occurred that night?" Rubas asked the jury during his closing argument. "The prosecution was supposed to paint the picture. They didn't. ... The whole story doesn't make sense. These are serious charges based solely on the testimony of one person."
The two charges Colon was found guilty of were those based on direct observation by police. Two officers identified him as the driver of the car that fled.


It's my third week here in Bali and I'm loving it so far! We didn't get to go to many places. Instead, we live our normal life: have coffee and biscuits for breakfast, do some works, have lunch, do some more works until it's just around 5pm. We love the slow enjoyable life that Bali offers.
Last weekend, we went to Double Six Seminyak beach just around 5pm. We were there for the sunset but too bad it was too cloudy and we didn't catch any glowing magical sunset. But we did enjoy the beach, don't get me wrong! We went strolling along the shore, met so many cute dogs, and found a place to sit and chill until it's just dinner time.
Was so happy to be at the beach!
Most of my Bali outfit consists of short pants and a simple top (it's hot here! Especially during the day). Hence, I always need a little touch from the pretty bold watch from Daniel Wellington. The one in the photo is their new Classic Petite Ashfield watch with rosegold lining.
If you want to take a better closer picture of the watch, you can read my previous post about it.
Isn't it beautiful? The Classic Petite Ashfield with rosegold lining.
It's summer all year long here! Sometimes I put my hats on, sometimes I just twist my hair into knots. But this time, I let my hair down.
Favorite part of the day is when I met so many mini Pomeranians during our walk at the beach! They remind me of my dog so much!
So tell me, what's your favorite beach in Bali?
And what's your favorite watch from @danielwellington?
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It's been another busy year at RHP and, like a well decorated tree, it's been a colourful one! Our elves, yet again, have worked with some great clients on some very innovative projects. We have WRAPped up some HaFSA gifts (I know we did this WRAPped up pun last year, but we like to recycle the crackers!) by continuing to manage and support the Hospitality and Food Service Agreement (HaFSA) working groups.
We have been in our workshop creating business resilience training (in response to the extreme weather experienced earlier on in the year) for VisitEngland, venturing out with the reindeer to train trainers to deliver the programme across the land.
Our elves have taken their sledge overseas too, flying into Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Egypt, Jordan and Thailand unwrapping eco-labelling and protecting birdlife.
Our exciting new training packages were launched with bells on this year too and we hosted a successful open training session in Oxford with HOSPA at the vivid and quirky Turl Street Kitchen.
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So its only 14 days left for preliminary exams. And I still haven't got my act together.I am making the same mistake but I cant afford to do that again this time. I have been kicked and beaten and walloped, quite figuratively, that is. So here I am. 29 years old, married with an 8th month old daughter, living with my parents (wifey is away doing her post graduation at college) and even after 4 and half years instead of the usual three, haven't completed my master's degree. No, i was never a bad student. Always the straight A types, but definitely not the nerdy types either. I wasted one year extra due to my dissertation or rather was made to ( let's not go there right now) and then in march this year i failed my MS exam. Failed. That is the first time I ever flunked a major exam, that too practicals. I blacked out in the vivas. And thus here I am.....I chucked everything and came back home ( I was supposed to join my hospital on voluntary basis, yeah right, after doing one year extra already, i would do that) and hid myself. Literally. I don't go out, don't socialize, even pray at home to avoid bumping into relatives, friends, acquaintances and the well meaning well wishers off course, who are greatly interested in what I am doing right now and when the hell am I going to set up my own practice. I had made great plans about how much I would read but in reality spent time moping around and fighting with depression. So that brings us to the current situation, only 14 days left and am nowhere near the starting point.
The second issue of my life. My Weight. I wouldn't say that in past I was a lean and fit type (no i wasn't) and gained weight recently. I was pleasantly overweight since last decade. but when my thesis track got all messed up I got depressed and took to eating, or rather I would say bingeing. In school till the 10th grade i was pretty active and fit, with athletics, swimming skating, dancing etc taking up my time. But when you start reading for your career that early, you start gaining weight. It gradually went up. when the first year in MBBS got over I went straight into being overweight. Been stuck there for a decade till last year when I turned to food for comfort and the scales shot up. For my small body frame of 5 feet 11 inches (181 cm) I went to a whopping 105 kilograms!!! I was so sick, so unfit. Could barely move around. Even taking one flight of stairs left me breathless. And also I do have asthma which was spiraling out of control. None of my clothes fit me. And to add to this I failed.
I had enough. I Realized I had to do something about my life. It started with the weight problem. So I set out on a fat fighting mission and thus studies took the back burner. But hell yeah, I did get somewhere with the fat problem. In the last two months I have managed to come down from being obese to being mere overweight. Currently my weight is 93.3 kg according to my gym scales. My old clothes fit again, albeit a bit tight. Now am starting to see changes.And my fitness levels, woohoo baby....I can run, only for 15 minutes though (no big deal you may say, but remember one flight of stairs left me breathless).
Forgive the typos, in a bit of hurry now. Have to take darling daughter to see her pediatrician, she has been having this dry cough since yesterday and its freaking me out. See you soon.


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Sligo to the Frictionless Border: The IRA, no Spuds, and no Injector
July 19, 2018 DossersDiary.com Ireland, UK, France & Ireland (2018) 2 comments
Far from wasting valuable time heading back South to the Ford garage at Ennis, we've actually been very busy tourists over the last few days. If only things had gone according to plan with the fuel injector…
Overview: 4 days, 376 miles
So there we were, driving South through County Roscommon at the start of our journey back South to Ennis, when what should we see but a big shiny sculpture of a horse and rider off to one side of the road. It immediately made me think of the Kelpies; probably something to do with the boldness of the sculpture and / or the shinyness of the finish.
By the time we'd both turned and uttered the words "what's that?", we had sailed past the turning for a minor road that may or may not have given access to parking. I've looked it up online and here it is:
Apparently, it's a Gaelic chieftain, and marks the site of an important battle in 1599.
A bit further down the road, we spotted another big sculpture. We weren't about to miss this one too! Mark immediately indicated left and we swung into a small parking area and went to have a look:
It's the sort of thing that, back in the UK, would definitely turn out to be a World War 1 memorial.
"Ah", said Mark, "it's an IRA memorial":
"They gave their lives for the 32 county Republic which has yet to be attained"
The statue was unveiled in 1963. Different times? I really don't know. The most recent addition, a memorial to a chap called Ruairi O Bradaigh, was only erected in 2016:
"His life was devoted to the principles of the 1916 proclamation and the establishment of a 32 county Irish Republic"
I really don't know what to make of it; I'll leave it to you to formulate your own opinions.
Mark then said exactly what I'd just been thinking. "Oh sh**, it's a good job SOK isn't still wearing his poppy". We figured that given our UK number plate, it was probably a good idea to make a reasonably swift exit anyway…..
Our first scheduled stop was at Strokestown House and National Famine Museum. Strokestown is a 1740s Palladian house that remained in the same family until 1979 when it was bought by a local businessman.
The house itself is still full of all the clutter you'd expect was there when it was vacated by its last, elderly, resident. I didn't find the tour overly informative, but Mark really liked it. His favourite bit of clutter was a Hornby clockwork train identical to the one he used to play with as a child at his nanny's house (and which had presumably belonged to his dad?).
We weren't there for the clutter-filled house though. When the house changed hands in 1979, over 40,000 documents were found in the old estate office, providing a detailed picture of the management of the estate over time and an important insight into the famine period.
During the Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1850, over 2.5 million people, of a total population of 8.5 million, either died or emigrated. We've found no shortage of museums around Ireland offering information on the famine; indeed, in the South-West, it seemed that all you needed was a ramshackle cottage (of which there are plenty dotting the landscape) and you could slap up a sign reading "Original Famine Cottage" – Hey Presto! you have yourself a visitor attraction!
I had decided that, sticking to our general principle of one museum per topic, Strokestown was the place to go for famine information, being the National Famine Museum and claiming to draw on specific archive material from the estate rather than wishy-washy "wasn't life grim when there were no spuds?"-type stuff (those who know me well will know that I don't do wishy-washy!).
The old stables at Strokestown now house the famine museum, explaining many aspects of the famine (feel free to skip the bullet points if it's too much information!):
the significant growth of the population, almost doubling to 8.5 million between 1780 and 1845, resulting in increased reliance on the potato (the only crop able to deliver enough calories to maintain a household on the tiny plots many families now had available);
a decline in the demand for labour (as land was converted to pasture) and the collapse of the cottage linen industry (due to the introduction of mechanisation) produced a substantial increase in the "destitute poor" during the early 19th century;
the highly indebted state of many of the landed estates, and pressure for landlords to evict tenants to free land up for pasture to increase returns;
once famine struck, the high and increasing burden that poor rates placed on landowners (up to 50% tax in some counties), the inadequate response of the "free trade" Whig government at Westminster, and the measures taken by Irish landlords to try to deal with the disaster.
At Strokestown, the plan for dealing with the famine was: to clear 2/3 of the tenants (around 8,000 people), make a switch from growing potatoes to growing oats, and promote emigration on a massive scale. Getting rid of the poor would save a fortune in poor rates; shipping a family to Canada cost less than half of keeping them in the workhouse for a year. Unfortunately, many of the 1000+ tenants sent for emigration from Strokestown died, either on the long walk to Dublin, on the coffin ships, or from disease after arrival in Canada. The landlord didn't do much better though; he was assassinated in November 1847 in protest at the mass evictions (a case of mistaken identity; the overzealous land agent carrying out the evictions had been the killers' target). All grim stuff….
Our next stop was Clonmacnoise, a monastery founded by St Ciarán in 544AD and one of the most important monasteries in Ireland during the medieval period.
Clonmacnoise stands on the banks of the river Shannon. It's an attractive enough set of monastic ruins, though I can't say that it stood out for me among the other sites that we've visited.
Perhaps part of my problem with Clonmacnoise was that it's been turned into a proper tourist attraction, with a visitor centre and an €8 admission fee (as it's managed by OPW, we got in free with our English Heritage cards, but still…)
One very impressive thing was the early 10th century High Cross in the visitor centre, one of the four most important in Ireland.
Mark particularly liked this illustration of a figure on the cross of Moone at Moone Abbey in Kildare (to the West of Dublin; we haven't been there but we've put it on our list for a future visit). He is convinced that it shows an ancestor of Bod (that will only make sense to UK readers of a certain vintage……):
In contrast, we really liked Clonfert Cathedral. It's a 12th century cathedral built on the site of an earlier 6th century church founded by St Brendan.
It's known for having the best Hiberno-Romanesque doorway in Ireland.
I think the best thing about Clonfert Cathedral is that it's completely unpretentious. There are no road signs as you approach it along narrow lanes, and there's no charge for visiting when you do get there.
The interior of the cathedral houses some more impressive stone carvings:
The creature below is apparently a wyfren (now there's a good Scrabble word!), a two-legged dragon commonly depicted in medieval times:
After a busy day of tourism, we arrived at a fantastic aire at Portumna, which is at the Northern end of Lough Derg. Not far from the town centre and next to a very cute little marina, this place had everything you could want for €10 a night (not including electricity; for that you need to buy a card from the supermarket in town). We liked it so much that we decided to return to Portumna on Wednesday night, at the start of our return journey North.
Tuesday saw us heading towards Ennis. We had a look at Kilmacduagh, a monastery founded in the early 7th century by St Colman Mac Duagh. The round tower is allegedly two feet out of perpendicular, though from some angles it looked more than that. We've already been told about round towers having shallow foundations and wondered if the tower is in any imminent danger of toppling.
We drove through the Eastern side of the Burren this time for another look at the fabulous limestone scenery:
We had plenty of time to squeeze in a visit to Quin Abbey on Tuesday afternoon, a Franciscan friary founded in 1433 on the footprint of a ruined Anglo-Norman castle. You can still see some of the remains of the castle; here's the base of one of the four corner towers:
Wednesday was Mark's birthday but was in other respects a big disappointment. We handed SOK over bright and early and wandered into Ennis, expecting the work to be complete by about lunchtime.
We took the opportunity to have a look around Ennis Friary, a Franciscan friary, the earliest parts of which date back to around 1285 AD. Here's St Francis himself:
We were looking at the other stone carvings in the friary when the garage called with news of a problem. They couldn't get the old injector out, and were worried that if they attempted to "encourage" it, it might break, in which case we'd be left stranded in Ennis for a week or more. They'd contacted the "Ford helpline" and tried everything they'd suggested, to no avail. They didn't want to risk going any further.
SOK's now booked in at the Ford garage at home for the day after we get back. We're assured that the injector should be fine until then, and that there are no warranty implications from delaying. We left armed with plenty of paper to document our visit to the Ford garage in Ennis and their diagnosis. Now we can only hope that the Ford garage at home can get the injector out without any disasters….. At least if it all goes wrong there, we'll have alternative accommodation close at hand whilst they sort it out.
As we mentioned above, we'd already decided to head back to the aire at Portumna last night after leaving Ennis. Apart from being a really nice place, with all the necessary motorhome facilities at the aire and washing machines at the local supermarket, it also has a castle and a friary to look at, which we did this morning (Thursday) before leaving.
The castle looks good from the front. We soon discovered, though, that the place burned down in 1828 and consisted of just four walls when the OPC took it on in the 1960s. They've since done a huge amount of work (including putting a roof on it and rebuilding the huge highly decorative chimneys), but there's plenty still to do:
The castle was built around 1610 for the 4th Earl of Clanricarde whose English seat was at Somerhill near Tonbridge (which nowadays houses an independent school). The ground floor of the castle (the only part that's accessible) contains an exhibition on the castle and the history of the family. The best part starts in the late 19th century with the 2nd Marquess, who was a known miser, eccentric, and notoriously repressive absentee landlord of his Irish estates. This guy was so unpleasant that an Act ended up being put before Parliament to expropriate his estates; this was passed almost unanimously with only 3 MPs voting against.
When the 2nd Marquess died childless in 1916, most of his titles became extinct but his sizeable fortune went to a great nephew. The nephew was Henry Lascelles, the future 6th Lord Harewood, who hence became independently wealthy in advance of receiving the Harewood inheritance. Lascelles went on to marry Princess Mary, the only daughter of George V and Queen Mary (i.e. the aunt of our current Queen), in 1922. A certain Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the future Queen Mum) was a bridesmaid…..
The walled garden at Portumna Castle is looking much more "finished" than the castle itself:
Portumna Friary, just outside the castle, is a 13th century Cistercian building that was given to the Dominicans sometime before 1414. Most of the ruins you can see today date to the 15th century:
This afternoon was spent driving from Portumna up past Cavan and just across the border into Northern Ireland. We're now parked up for the night at a quiet little spot on Upper Lough Erne (GPS 54.203460, -7.495420):
We crossed the "frictionless border" that's currently keeping the politicians awake at night not too many miles before arriving here. "Invisible border" might be a better description. It wasn't at all like crossing one of the borders in the Schengen area; no signs of old border posts, no signs at all in fact. All that happened is that one road sign was in km and the next one was in miles. "Oh, was that it?" said Mark.
We've already been told by a friendly passing local that Theresa May was in the area today to "have a look at the border". We'll have to hope that she brought her bionic specs…..
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Another nice detailed history lesson. When are you going to write the definitive SOK tourist guide to Ireland?
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Nah, that sounds like hard work 😎


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El Salvador is something like the reformed Medellin that was. Yes, it's still suffering from astronomically high crime rates and marauding drug cartels. Yes, there are pockets of startling poverty to deal with. However, ask anyone who's traveled to this great slab of Central America and they'll tell you: the vast majority of the volcano-dotted, jungle-dressed land is gorgeous!
El Salvador tour guides have not been silent either. They too have been trying to get a slice of region's booming eco and adventure tourism industry. They talk of brooding cinder cones at Chaparrastique, of legendary surfing spots along Las Flores. They tell tales of lively sangria-filled cantinas in the Zona Rosa of San Salvador, awesome watersports at Intipuca Beach, mind-boggling colonial facades and relics in San Miguel and intrepid coastal hiking at El Cuco. Meanwhile, supervolcanos host lakes on the tops of Ilopango and pupusa breads beckon from the roadside eateries, mango juices slosh about the beach bars and Joya de Cerén is hailed as the Pompeii of the Americas. Not bad eh?


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Q: Want to Capture Mule Project name and Configuration XML Name and Insert into a SQL table I want to Capture "Mule Project name" and "Configuration XML Name" and Insert into a SQL table.
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How to prioritise disinvestment in support services
By Professor Marion Bain, Simon Belfer, Hester Ward2012-02-07T07:00:00+00:00
A tool to help assess disinvestment in support services can help organisations validate their difficult decisions in this area, as Marion Bain, Hester Ward and Simon Belfer explain.
The NHS spends a significant proportion of its budget on services that support direct, patient-facing services. An estimated 30 per cent of NHS Scotland's workforce comprises administrative and support staff. While the effects of these support services could be considered indirect, they have a major impact of the quality and efficiency of frontline services.
With tightening budgets, there is increasing pressure for the NHS to prioritise and, when required, to agree on disinvestments. Using combinations of financial, outcomes and ethical frameworks, considerable work has been undertaken to develop valid methodologies to prioritise clinical services.
But it is important that the prioritisation decisions about support services are made using an objective and systematic methodology, which is as robust, valid and open to scrutiny as the methods used for direct clinical services. There is however very little guidance or published information to help health service managers to do this.
NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) is the main provider of national-level support services to NHS Scotland. It deals with national procurement, health protection support, blood transfusion services, provision of information, commissioning of screening and specialist health services, information management and technology services, patient GP registration services, counter fraud services, legal services and facilities support. A methodology was developed within NSS to ensure decisions about prioritisation and disinvestment could be made systematically and objectively, relying on the best available information and evidence, applied in a practical and pragmatic way.
This tool has been put into practice to assist prioritisation, service redesign and efficiency decisions and has now been rolled out for use as a decision assisting tool throughout NSS.
Scoring the Relative Health Impact of different NSS
Health impact score
Extent of potential health
Number of people positively affected per year
Likelihood of the health impact being realised
Prevention of minor adverse event
Small improvement in health status
<5,000 Hard to imagine happening
2 5,000<50,000 Unlikely (15-35%)
3 Moderate improvement in health status 50,000<500,000 Possible (35-60%)
4 500,000<5,000,000 Likely (60-80%)
5 (high)
Prevention of severe adverse event
Significant improvement in health status
Prevention of death/long term morbidity
>5,000,000 Almost certain (80-100%)
The key steps
Ensure leadership from both a finance and a health perspective: Costs and benefits are equally important when making decisions about priorities. The work in NSS was jointly led by the director of finance and the medical director, which allowed the different expertise and perspectives to influence the methodology's development.
Engage and involve service managers and providers: While the work was led at executive director level, the managers of the services were involved from the start and began by defining their services. NSS has 10 operating divisions and the directors of each were asked to provide descriptions of their services grouped into a maximum of nine categories. These were described in terms of services to customers. In total, it was agreed that 67 services covered all NSS external services and the managers provided the relevant information to assess the costs and benefits.
Use evidence, good practice and, if needed, new approaches: The basic approach was based on health economic principles with the costs and benefits of each service being assessed. Although identifying the costs of each service was relatively straightforward, assessing benefits was more challenging. NSS services are diverse and, generally, several steps away from the ultimate health or healthcare outcomes for patients.
NSS has categorised the benefits of its services into two broad groups. These are health impact benefits (services that ultimately contribute to improved health outcomes for patients and the public) and financial impact benefits (services that save the NHS money).
The assessment of relative health and financial benefits of each service across our diverse portfolio of services required some innovative thinking. Development work was undertaken in NSS to identify how to measure the relative health impact and financial impact of the range of support services provided.
To assess health impact a methodology was developed and applied by a multidisciplinary clinical group from across NSS. This involved scoring for each service: the extent of potential health impact; the number of people positively affected by the service; and the likelihood of the potential health impact being achieved given the gap between the service and frontline delivery of health services (see table, left).
Scores were agreed for each service and multiplied together to obtain a relative health impact score. The importance of comparing relative rather than absolute scores was recognised (the absolute scores in themselves carried little meaning). To aid this comparison and prevent potentially invalid discussions of absolute scores, the scores were then divided into three categories to define the health impact of each service as high, medium or low.
To assess financial impact, an approach was developed that assessed the cost avoidance of providing a service once for the whole of NHS Scotland rather than numerous times, as well as cost savings that reflect additional savings generated for NHS Scotland. This was done by a service examining its scope and activities, and providing them at a lower cost for both itself and NHS Scotland (see table, below right). These two aspects were combined and the overall financial impact of each service was categorised as high, medium or low.
Consider factors beyond the obvious costs and benefits: Although costs and benefits form the basic information for prioritisation decisions, it would be naive to think decisions on service provision will depend on these alone. For the NSS some services are required by statute, others are provided to meet a legal requirement and some are driven by political commitments. Whether or not these factors applied to each of the NSS services was considered. In addition, the practical likelihood of a reduced or discontinued service actually freeing up resources was assessed.
Start using the information as soon as it is fit for purpose: The work outlined here resulted in detailed spreadsheets containing information for all 67 services. We were able to use this as soon as it was collated to perform an initial high level review of these services. In particular, we used it to assess to what extent each one met the NSS agreed mission and purpose, and to what extent each one contributed to improving quality of care and efficiency for NHS Scotland (view diagram).
We also used the information to identify potential groups of candidate services for efficiency measures, service redesign and disinvestment, based on an informed decision balancing costs and benefits, which formed the basis of further discussion with service managers.
The results of the tool were used in discussion with external stakeholders, which gave an opportunity for peer review and endorsement of the tool's use and validity. Although the information was used as soon as it was available, it was recognised that improvements could, and should, be made. NSS managers were encouraged to use the methodology to assess their services in more detail and feed back improvements.
Categorisation of the Relative Financial Impact of different NSS Services
Financial impact per year
ACTUAL SAVINGS
Low: <£0.5m Low: <£1m
Medium: £0.5-5m Medium: £1m-£5m
High: >£5m High: >£5m
A basis for discussion
It is important to note that the whole approach is based on understanding the relative costs and benefits of services, as opposed to their absolute values. Although some quantifiable measures were used, much of the approach reflects qualitative assessments (that is, high, medium and low ratings), with the aim of providing a practical and achievable approach to robustly differentiating services. This can lead to further detailed work and discussions on a smaller subset of services as and when required.
We believe this approach has potential for wider applicability, in particular to support comparisons and decision making across diverse services that indirectly support clinical care.
Focusing on how support services improve quality and reduce costs allows their contribution to be recognised and, ultimately, to be developed so it can be increased.
Although the methodology does not produce definitive answers, it provides a robust, objective and explicit basis for discussion with stakeholders about the value and prioritisation of support services that, to date, have been very difficult to compare in a meaningful way.
Contribution of National Service Scotland
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Independent filmmaker Allen Moore will share his personal experiences as a cinematographer and give advice to Randolph students about how to enter the film industry for the Spring 2016 Sara Driver '77 Lecture. The program is free and open to the public, and will take place April 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 415 of Martin Science Building.
Moore is an active independent filmmaker who has produced, directed, photographed, and edited his own documentaries for more than 30 years. He served as director of photography for several of Ken Burns' historical films that aired on PBS, including the multipart series The Civil War and Baseball, the two-part series Thomas Jefferson, as well as Lewis and Clark, Mark Twain, and Horatio's Drive. He is a faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and is currently enrolled in a residency program at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
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Dreamscape (1984, Joseph Ruben)
Leave a Comment	/ ★½, 1984, Film, Sci-Fi / 3 December 2016 3 December 2016 / 20th Century Fox, Christopher Plummer, David Patrick Kelly, Dennis Quaid, Dreamscape, Eddie Albert, George Wendt, Kate Capshaw, Max Von Sydow
Dreamscape has a lot of subplots. The main plot barely gets any more time during the second act than the subplots. But I'm getting ahead of myself because I wanted to talk about the first act, which has Dennis Quaid getting reacquainted with mentor Max von Sydow. The film opens with this fast, fun action sequence with psychic Quaid winning big at the track and having to outsmart some goons. It perfectly utilizes Quaid's charm and director Ruben has a fantastic pace. Richard Halsey's editing on Dreamscape is strong, he just doesn't get a lot of opportunities to excel after the open.
Then von Sydow gets Quaid to do the dream experiments–going into other people's dreams, which he needs to train to do and it does give the film a natural structure for a while but there's all those subplots. Time to talk about the subplots. There's Christopher Plummer's government guy who wants them to dream fix the President (an exhausted Eddie Albert). There's Quaid's rivalry with David Patrick Kelly's fellow dream psychic. There's Quaid's romance of Kate Capshaw. There's Quaid's friendship with young nightmare sufferer, Cory 'Bumper' Yothers (yes, he's Tina's big brother). Finally, there's Quaid and George Wendt, who's investigating the whole project. von Sydow and Quaid actually do have something approaching character development in their scenes, which I'll lump into the main plot.
The script–from original story writer David Loughery, Chuck Russell, and director Ruben–lacks any connective tissue between the subplots. It's like they each took a few, wrote them, then lined up the scenes. Even though it's an exceptionally limited setting–a college campus where shadowy government stuff goes on and there are barely any students–these characters have no relationships with anyone outside the person they're opposite. Capshaw and von Sydow, for example, have absolutely no relationship outside of exposition and direction, even though they've been working together for years. Same goes for Kelly and Capshaw. And Kelly and von Sydow. And Capshaw and Plummer. And everyone and Wendt. It's very strange and very poorly done. The writing is often fine–Plummer's got a lot of scenery to chew, Kelly's part is awesome, von Sydow's fantastic–but it doesn't have a narrative flow. It's almost like Dreamscape was made to be watched with commercial breaks.
Quaid's solid in the lead. He doesn't get much to do–his romance with Capshaw, while ostensibly steamy, isn't enough–and he's just a passenger in the rest of his subplots. He and von Sydow are great together, however. As well as Quaid and Kelly. They're great nemeses. Capshaw's not terrible. She's not good, but she's not terrible. She gets a weak part and can't do anything with it; Dreamscape is a movie where the actors need to be able to do something with their weak parts. As scripted, Plummer's barely two dimensional, yet Plummer is able to at least make the part into something. Capshaw can't. Partially her fault, mostly the script's fault, partially Ruben's fault.
And Maurice Jarre doesn't help anyone with his music. He makes Dreamscape weirder in a way completely contrary to what Ruben's doing.
There are some great special effects and some solid sequences, but the third act's a mess and the denouement is somewhat worse.
Directed by Joseph Ruben; screenplay by David Loughery, Chuck Russell, and Joseph Ruben, based on a story by Loughery; director of photography, Brian Tufano; edited by Richard Halsey; music by Maurice Jarre; produced by Bruce Cohn Curtis; released by 20th Century Fox.
Starring Dennis Quaid (Alex Gardner), Max von Sydow (Doctor Paul Novotny), Christopher Plummer (Bob Blair), Eddie Albert (The President), Kate Capshaw (Jane DeVries), David Patrick Kelly (Tommy Ray Glatman), George Wendt (Charlie Prince) and Cory 'Bumper' Yothers (Buddy).
JOSEPH RUBEN
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, Steven Spielberg)
Leave a Comment	/ 1984, Action-Adventure, Film, ⓏⒺⓇⓄ / 21 May 2008 21 May 2008 / Amrish Puri, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, John Williams, Kate Capshaw, Paramount Pictures, Roshan Seth, Steven Spielberg
I can understand Chinese people being upset with the stereotypes–Spielberg and company basically lift all the anti-Japanese stereotypes from early 1940s American films and apply them to the Chinese–but at least they're only goofy and mischievous. The Indians in the film are downright evil. Temple of Doom's atrocious script (I suppose Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz do manage to get a few excellent one-liners in) never explains how the bad guys came to have their titular temple, but it certainly implies, left to their own devices, the Indian upper class is inclined toward evil. The good Indians, working for the British (of course), show up at the end for a moment.
Besides the film's amazingly Western view of the world (it takes the worst from old serials instead of the best… or even the mediocre and not just in its portrayal of non-whites, there's a moment where the bad guy goes through the secret hatch to escape), it is, simply put, a piece of crap. There are some good action sequences–remove the story from the last act and all the action stuff is well choreographed and, in another context, exciting–but the rest is garbage. Oh, the dinner scene. I forgot–Indians are barbaric savages who eat gross food too. Spielberg, Lucas, Huyck and Katz really take the low road here (but it seems like most of Spielberg and Lucas's mid 1980s output often did).
While there are some real Spielberg touches–the annoying kids, the poor casting of Kate Capshaw, who gives one of the worst performances I can remember–but it all feels like too much Lucas. Lucas came up with the shallow story, but a lot of the sequences from Temple of Doom seem like they're straight from Return of the Jedi. Maybe ILM had all the photography techniques down.
Harrison Ford escapes somewhat unscathed. Even he can't make the scenes with Capshaw believable, but the scenes with the annoying kid are fine. The problem, again, comes from the script. Huyck and Katz turn Indiana Jones into a superhero. An occasionally lucky one, but a superhero nonetheless and it isn't particularly interesting watching him in the action montages. The full scenes, where he escapes due to environment or the bad guy's bad luck, those are fine. But when it's Indiana Jones knocking people out with one punch… it all seems too goofy. The story never gives the impression he's smart, which is a bit of a problem. It comes kind of close a few times, but it's a shock every time someone refers to him as "Dr. Jones."
Spielberg always said he made the third Indiana Jones to make up for Temple of Doom. Well, if he was so aware it was something he needed to atone for, why'd he make it in the first place?
Directed by Steven Spielberg; screenplay by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, based on a story by George Lucas; director of photography, Douglas Slocombe; edited by Michael Kahn; music by John Williams; production designer, Elliot Scott; produced by Robert Watts; released by Paramount Pictures.
Starring Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones), Kate Capshaw (Willie Scott), Ke Huy Quan (Short Round), Amrish Puri (Mola Ram), Roshan Seth (Chattar Lal), Philip Stone (Captain Phillip Blumburtt), Roy Chiao (Lao Che), David Yip (Wu Han), Ric Young (Kao Kan) and Chua Kah Joo (Chen).
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June 16 seems to be a busy and almost metaphysical day for us. Big things have been happening on or within a day or two, of June 16 for years. One, is it's my husband's birthday. Two, we lost Tikky on the 16th, a few years before she passed on we had to help her ailing sis, Jimi, to cross the Rainbow Bridge on the 18th. Zoe almost passed away on June 16, three years ago. It's just been a "special" day, though for a few years there, not a happy special day.
Then came June 16, 2001.
If you reach back in memory, you might remember that just a week before that, the Houston area was hit by Tropical Storm Alison. We were blessed in that though our side of town received many inches of rain, we didn't have the terrible flooding that the east and northeast side of Harris county experienced. One of the most worrying situations for us was that Frick, whom we had tried to catch many many times, had given birth about a week before, on or near June 6.
When she was pregnant this time she finally let me stroke her when she was feeding, so we hoped that at last we would be able to get her off the street before this litter was born. That didn't happen *sigh* and we didn't see her for days during and right after Alison hit. About the 12th she showed up for dinner however. She appeared fine and I could see that she was still nursing.
Dawn, June 16th. Actually just before dawn. I went outside to get the paper and the stars were so beautiful, the early morning sky so outstanding, I went back in, woke up Birthday Boy and told him that there was a special gift for his 61st birthday. Little did I know what else he'd get!
After admiring the sky, and when we stepped on the front porch, Mama Frick strolled up for breakfast. Renato stayed with her while I went for food, but when I come back out he said, "I think I hear squeaking in the Clown Car."
Ah...the Clown Car was our emergency kitty shelter on our front porch. By this time only Frick was using it on occasion, as Morgana was now inside.
The sun was giving us some daylight by now, plus the porch light was still on. I bent over and looked in the Clown Car. Oh yea.
"Happy Birthday Renato! For once June 16th is bringing us babies, not taking them away!"
Naturally we don't know where Frick had these kittens, but it's our guess that she spent all night carrying each one to our house for safety and help. At first Renato felt we should wait a couple of days before bringing them in but I sat there and disagreed strongly. I said that some cat might wander by and frighted Frick into moving them, or she might just move them regardless and how would we find them? Nonono. We have a chance here to get the last of the homeless off our street. Please let's get them in, we'll sort it all out later.
We hadn't ever carried Frick, golly we could barely pet her, though she was very gentle and never shied away from us. A far cry from actually carrying a cat! We got the "baby" room ready, then went outside. Renato spoke with Frick, picked her up and simply walked into the house, into the baby room with her! I strongly suggest You don't try this on a cat you don't really know!
He came back (I had stayed on the porch with the kittens) and said, "No problem, she never even wiggled." We then simply picked up the Clown Car and within moments her babies were with her. I took the top off of this refuge and mosquitoes swarmed out! Good thing we got these babies inside, I don't know if they would have had a chance again these terrible swarms of mosquitoes we had after Alison. Maybe that's why Frick brought them to us.
I'll also never forget how one of them peered up at me and said, "Hizzzzzz!" VBG. They appeared to be about 10 days old, their eyes just beginning to be fully open.
It's been almost a year and a half, we still have three of the five from this litter, though I never give up hope of finding good homes VBG. Frick is also still here, not very interested in being petted and loved, but content. She really needs a home but almost no one is willing to take on a kitty like this. At least she is inside and not making babies any longer! Also, with the loving help of many internet cat friends, our last batch of "street urchins" are all neutered, safe and happy.
Up in the above crowd areToast!, Hillary and ZsaZsa - The Gabor Boys. One of the boys (now known as Zion) was adopted by a good friend and *tears* we lost the female, Anuk, to a rare uterine infection.
That's Hillary lying on Frick's rib cage *hoump!* and ZsaZsa on the front feeding station.
Mama Frick has met with Anuk at the Rainbow Bridge. On Saturday, Oct 2, 2004 she took suddenly ill. We did all we could but by the morning of Oct 3 it was apparent she was failing rapidly. We could barely touch her, more treatments were out of the question. She passed with love surrounding her, the pain and chronic infections forever done with.
Soar high brave Mama Frick, God must need another good Mom right now.
Some babies to coo over VBG!
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